Kirk Collection

Popular Song Index(Professional/Artist Song Sheets)
Part 5: 1930-1939

This portion of the index provides records to 160 titles published from
1930 through 1939. The entire collection contains popular
songs published from 1900-1972. The collection
consists mostly of 22 x 28 cm. (8 1/2 x 11 in.) professional/artist
song sheets. Pagination varies, and many of the song sheets,
particularly the older ones, are fragile. They were used by
music and department stores to promote sheet music sales.
The entire collection of sheet music and professional/artist song sheets
has approximately 7,500 items.

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Arrangement is by year and title. Use the chart below to link to the beginning record for a particular year. You may also return to a listing of the other catalogs found in the Popular Song Index. See the bottom of this page for additional links.

Title: All through the night.
First Line: After the laughter of gay day is through
Chorus: When the pale moon beams, take me in your dreams
Music by: Yorke, Helen, Norman Clark, and Rudy Vallee.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Carl Fischer Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Any old time.
First Line: Any old time you want to come back home, drop me a line
Chorus:
Music by: Rogers, Jimmie.
Words by: Rogers, Jimmie.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Confessin' that I love you.
First Line: How I long to tell you that I love you
Chorus: l love you tell me do you love me too
Music by: Daugherty, Doc, and Ellis Reynolds.
Words by: Neiburg, Al. J.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Croonin' in the moonlight.
First Line: Blues take 'em away and play me a sweet melody
Chorus: Croonin' in the moonlight croonin' on the levee where the Mississippi flows
Music by: Hancock, John, and Martin Dul Gov.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Master Music Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Don't tell her what's happened to me.
First Line: I loved her, I lost her, she craved thrill I can't forget her I love her still
Chorus: Tell me where she is tell me where she goes, tell me who she knows
Music by: De Sylva, B. G., Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson.
Words by:
P/P/D: S.I. : De Sylva, Brown and Henderson Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Down in Shenandoah Valley.
First Line: Chapel bells are softly ringing o'er the hill, nightingale is calling to the whippoorwill
Chorus: Down in Shenadoah Valley, where I fell in love with you
Music by: Silver, Abner.
Words by: Gordon, Mack.
P/P/D: New York : Carl Fischer Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Gee, but I'd like to make you happy.
First Line: I never really knew what love could do
Chorus: I've got a dog, and I've got a cat, and I've got a cozy little, sweet little rosy little place for your hat
Music by: Shay, Larry, George Ward, and Reggie Montgomery.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : De Sylva, Brown and Henderson Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Hangin' on a lamp post (singin' a song).
First Line: I just left the boyfriends, what a jolly lot
Chorus: Hangin' on a lamp post all the night long
Music by: Tobias, Charles, and Murray Mencher.
Words by: Tobias, Charles, Mencher.
P/P/D: New York : Red Star Music Co., Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Headin' for better times.
First Line: There's a train been standing still a year or so, but I've heard some happy news today
Chorus: Put a coat of joy right on in a minute we'll be gone
Music by: Tobias, Charles, and Murray Mencher.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Red Star Music Co., Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Here comes Emily Brown.
First Line: Who just stepped right off a 'plane who wouldn't use a train to see me
Chorus: Look out the way, here comes Emily
Music by: Meskill, Jack.
Words by: Conrad, Con.
P/P/D: New York : Red Star Music Co., Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: I don't mind walkin' in the rain (when I'm walkin' in the rain with you).
First Line: It's raining, it's raining, I hope it rains all day long
Chorus: I don't mind walkin' in the rain when I'm walkin' in the rain with you
Music by: Rich, Max, and Al Hoffman.
Words by: Rich, Max, and Al Hoffman.
P/P/D: Chicago : Forster Music Publisher,Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: I love love (Countess).
First Line: Ev'rytime is the last time in the pastime of the heart
Chorus: I love love. I'm mad about making up right after a breaking up, it's grand!
Music by: Dolan, Robert.
Words by: O'Keefe, Walter.
P/P/D: S.I. : Harms Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: I'll never love anyone but you.
First Line: Who knows what tomorrow may bring, it may be clear and then
Chorus: I'll never love anyone but you, just you alone no one else will do
Music by: Tobias, Henry H.
Words by: Tobias, Charles, and Harry Tobias.
P/P/D: New York : Red Star Music Co., Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: I'm so afraid of you.
First Line: If love is so grand why am I fearful? I should be cheerful and gay
Chorus: I'm so afraid of you, because I know that you know how I love you
Music by: Kalmar, Bert, and Harry Ruby.
Words by:
P/P/D: S.I. : Harms Incorporated, c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: In old Granada.
First Line: Moonlight a glow in old Granada guitars played low your songs again
Chorus: Moonlight in old Granada, scent of the orange flow'rs
Music by: Maduro, Chas.
Words by: Moore, Elizabeth Evelyn.
P/P/D: New York : Master Music Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Love is a dreamer.
First Line: Though your smiles are not for me, though my love seems all in vain
Chorus: Dreamer, fashioning dreams for me, making each day, a day divine
Music by: Green, Bud, and Sam H. Stept.
Words by: Green, Bud, and Sam H. Stept.
P/P/D: New York : De Sylva, Brown & Henderson Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: The man I could have loved.
First Line: I'm disillusioned over a man, the one I really could have cared for
Chorus: If he had held me close and whispered to me, the things we could have done so happy and free
Music by: Byington, Patricia.
Words by: Byington, Patricia.
P/P/D: S.I. : Harms Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: My ideal.
First Line: Long ago my heart and mind; got together and designed
Chorus: Will I ever find the girl (boy) in my mind the one who is my ideal
Music by: Whiting, Richard A., and Newell Chase.
Words by: Robin, Leo.
P/P/D: New York : Famous Music Corp., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: My Jean.
First Line: I seem to live again, under the skies of Spain
Chorus: My Jean, I hear the birds I love so well proclaim
Music by: Lincoff, Gertrude.
Words by: Hirsch, Walter.
P/P/D: S.l. : De Sylva, Brown and Henderson Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Old New England moon.
First Line: When the shadows fall I'm lonely lonely as a soul can be
Chorus: Old New England moon I'm pining pining for a sight of you
Music by: Vance, Dave, and George P. Howard.
Words by: Vance, Dave, and George P. Howard.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: On a night like this (beneath a lover's moon).
First Line: Moon above brought us love, making a heaven for two
Chorus: On a night like this beneath a lover's moon you became the only one for me
Music by: Gusman, Meyer.
Words by: Sandry, Vin.
P/P/D: New York : Meyer Gusman Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: The scamp of the campus.
First Line: Every school and college has a guy like me
Chorus: I'm the scamp of the campus, oh, I never study latin 'cause it's just a lot of Greek
Music by: Greer, Jesse.
Words by: Klages, Ray.
P/P/D: New York : Red Star Music Co., Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Something to remember you by.
First Line: You are leaving me, and I will try to face the world alone
Chorus: Oh, give me something to remember you by, when you are far away from me, dea
Music by: Schwartz, Arthur.
Words by: Dietz, Howard.
P/P/D: S.I. : Harms Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: That would be heaven to me.
First Line: Are you the one dear? My heart has won dear for you have it that is real
Chorus: To hold your charms, in my loving arms that would be heaven to me
Music by: Galligan, C. H.
Words by: Gallingan, C. H.
P/P/D: New York : Artist Publishers, c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: To make a long story short (I love you).
First Line: I have so much to say dear, I don't know where to start
Chorus: Just make a long story short, I'll begin at the end, with love you
Music by: Gay, Byron.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Red Star Music Co., Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Under the spell of your kiss.
First Line: I always thought that love would come to stay, and though I tried so hard, it did not last
Chorus: Oh, I never knew love could be like this I'm still under the spell of your kiss
Music by: Jerome, M. K.
Words by: Jasmyn, Joan.
P/P/D: New York : Red Star Music Co., Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: With a smile on my face and a tear in my heart (I said goodbye to you).
First Line: I didn't want you to feel sorry for me, when you told me our love had to end
Chorus: With a smile on my face and a tear in my heart, I said good bye to you
Music by: Piantadosi, Al, and Carmen Lombardo.
Words by: Oppenheim, Dave.
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist, Inc., c1930.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

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1931

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Title: Another candle on your birthday cake.
First Line: What a happy day for you, dear, what a happy day in store
Chorus: Another candle on your birthday cake, congratulations, dear
Music by: De Rose, Peter.
Words by: Tobias, Charlie, and Carl Field.
P/P/D: S.I. : Miller Music Incorporated, c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: As long as I live.
First Line: I never knew that love could be like this, dear I never dreamt that it would come my way
Chorus: A night of splendor, your sweet surrender, I'll hold it tender, as long as I live
Music by: Harrison, Charles.
Words by:
P/P/D: Chicago : National Music Co., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Beautiful love.
First Line: Now that I've met you, love, can't you see I'm just a slave and a dreamer, schemer
Chorus: Beautiful love, you're all a mystery! Beautiful love, what have you done to me?
Music by: Young, Victor, Wayne King, and Egbert Van Alstyne.
Words by: Gillispie, Haven.
P/P/D: New York : Red Star Music Co. Inc., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Good night sweetheart.
First Line: The day is over and its cares and woes in peaceful sweet repose
Chorus: Good night sweetheart, till we meet tomorrow good night sweetheart
Music by: Noble, Ray, Jimmy Campbell, and Reg. Connelly.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Robbins Music Corporation, c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939
Note: Two versions of this title are held.

Title: Guilty.
First Line: Tho' you've decided that our love is wrong, and think that we should part
Chorus: Is it a sin, is it a crime loving you, dear, like I do? Guilty, guilty of loving you
Music by: Kahn, Gus, Harry Akst, and Richard A. Whiting.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist Inc., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Hiding in the shadows of the moon.
First Line: I'm never found among the lights darkness is where I spend my nights
Chorus: High up above the moon is in the sky love is ev'rywhere and here am I
Music by: Rich, Max, and Helmy Kresa.
Words by: Scholl, Jack.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin Inc., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: How I long for you tonight.
First Line: Softly, sweetly something's calling, it must be that I'm in love
Chorus: How I long for you tonight, dear, for the joy to have you here
Music by: Peterson, Walter, Ella Frances, and Charlie Harrison.
Words by:
P/P/D: Chicago : National Music Co., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: I don't suppose.
First Line: When I start make believing I make believe you're near
Chorus: I don't suppose that you could care, I don't suppose it would be fair
Music by: Malneck, Matt.
Words by: Kahn, Gus.
P/P/D: S.I. : Harms Incorporated, c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: I love you in the same sweet way.
First Line: When the shadows fall, I love to recall all the days that used to be
Chorus: I love you in the same sweet way, dear love you more than I can say
Music by: King, Robert A.
Words by: Moll, Billy.
P/P/D: New York : Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: If you can't sing, whistle.
First Line: You can hear all the while, songs that say "cheer up and smile"
Chorus: When things are going wrong, if you can't sing a song, just whistle! whistle!
Music by: Hart, Jack, and Tom Blight.
Words by: Hart, Jack, and Tom Blight.
P/P/D: New York : Keith Prowse & Co. Ltd., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: If you haven't got love.
First Line: I have the proper number of eyes and mouth and nose
Chorus: More things in life I've plenty of what good's this, that or the other, if you haven't got love?
Music by: De Sylva, B. G., Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson.
Words by:
P/P/D: S.I. : De Sylva, Brown and Henderson Inc, c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: I'm all dressed up with a broken heart.
First Line: Life is only what you make it, so take it that way
Chorus: I'm all dressed up with a broken heart, just like an actor that plays a part
Music by: Fisher, Fred, Stella Unger, and Harold Stern.
Words by: Fisher, Fred, Stella Unger, and Harold Stern.
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist Inc., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: I'm sorry dear.
First Line: I have learned my lesson, my heart is confessin' I have been unfair to you
Chorus: Just like a rose you faded your life is what I made it
Music by: Weeks, Anson, Harry Tobias, and Johnnie Scott.
Words by: Weeks, Anson, Harry Tobias, and Johnnie Scott.
P/P/D: New York : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: It's the girl!
First Line: Some folks need atmosphere when they're making love
Chorus: It isn't the paddle, it's not the canoe, it isn't the river or skies that are blue
Music by: Baer, Abel.
Words by: Oppenheim, Dave.
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist Inc., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Like a harp of gold.
First Line: Love's melody for you and me lives alone memory
Chorus: Heart is like a harp of gold on which love's story once was told
Music by: Leffingwell, Roy.
Words by: Leeson, Lois.
P/P/D: Los Angeles : Roy Leffingwell Publishing Co., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Love is like that (what can you do?).
First Line: Love came along, sang a song of all that it would bring, how wonderful, how sweet my life would be
Chorus: It takes you, it breaks you, it comes and then forsakes you
Music by: Russell, Benee.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist Inc., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: One of us was wrong.
First Line: One little word spoken in haste, one little sweetheart can't be replaced
Chorus: One of us was wrong and so we parted. One of us was wrong, and now we're thru
Music by: Goering, Al.
Words by: Kahn, Gus.
P/P/D: S.I. : De Sylva, Brown and Henderson Inc., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Reflections of you (no hea la oe).
First Line: Palm trees, why are you swaying? Sea breeze, what are you saying?
Chorus: I mould your likness in the sand, and I find I drew reflections of you
Music by: Pollack, Lew.
Words by: Gilbert, L. Wolfe.
P/P/D: New York : Edward B. Marks Music Co., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Twenty one years.
First Line:
Chorus: The judge said "Stand up, boy, and dry up your tears, you're sentenced to Nashville for twenty one years"
Music by: Miller, Bob.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Mills Music Inc., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: What am I gonna do for lovin'?
First Line: No, no, no; please don't go, why give up the game?
Chorus: What am I gonna do for lovin', honey when you go away?
Music by: Bernard, Felix.
Words by: Hoffman, Al.
P/P/D: S.l. : De Sylva, Brown and Henderson Inc., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939
Note: Two versions of this title are held. Version #2 is a special copy for organists.

Title: When Yuba plays the rumba on the tuba.
First Line: His name was Yuba! He was homely, he was dumb; and so was Yuba just a big ambitious bum
Chorus: Down in Havana there's a funny lookin' boob-a; he plays the Rumba on the tuba, down in Cuba.
Music by: Hupfeld, Herman.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Harms Inc, c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Yes or no.
First Line: 'Twould take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out how I stand with you.
Chorus: You've got me running around in circles each day, I'm on a "merry go 'round," you've got me that way
Music by: Rich, Max.
Words by: O'Flynn, Charles.
P/P/D: S.I. : De Sylva, Brown & Henderson Inc., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939
Note: Two versions of this title are held. Version #2 is a special copy for organists.

Title: You really started something.
First Line: I was so unconcerned, with life, and then I learned, it really is worth the while
Chorus: I'm reading poems instead of the news, it's very plain to see
Music by: Kisco, Charley, Gus Arnheim, and Ralph Freed.
Words by:
P/P/D: Hollywood, Calif. : Freed & Powers Ltd., c1931.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

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Title: Balling' the Jack.
First Line: Folks in Georgia's 'bout to go insane since that new dance down in Georgia came
Chorus: First you put your two knees close up tight then you sway 'em to the left, then you sway 'em to the right
Music by: Smith, Chris.
Words by: Burris, Jim.
P/P/D: S.I. : Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: The clockwork toy parade.
First Line: Now if you are at leisure, and fond of seeking pleasure, come where I'm wanting to take you
Chorus: Come along with me if you want to be at the clockwork toy parade
Music by: Sarony, Leslie.
Words by: Sarony, Leslie.
P/P/D: London : Peter Maurice Music Co. Ltd., c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Good times coming.
First Line: Moaning sisters, moaning brothers, there ain't no use to weep or whine
Chorus: Good times coming, bad times going, good times coming here to stay
Music by: Bibo, Irving, and Albert Von Tilzer.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Bibo-Lang Inc., c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Home on the range.
First Line: Oh why did I roam from my far away home, how I wish I were back there to stay
Chorus: Home, home on the range, how I wish I were back there to stay
Music by: Potter, Harold.
Words by:
P/P/D: Philadelphia, Penn. : Morris Music Pub. Co., c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: I love you best of all.
First Line: Darling the sunshine grows brighter, when you are by my side
Chorus: I love the silver in your hair. I love the gold that lingers there
Music by: Taylor, Tell.
Words by:
P/P/D: S.I. : Forster Music Publisher Inc., c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: In London on a night like this.
First Line: People pine for skies that are blue and search for romance in lands that are new
Chorus:
Music by: Young, Arthur.
Words by: Valentine, Val.
P/P/D: London : Peter Maurice Music, c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: It was midnight on the ocean.
First Line: Now I know a little ditty, it's as crazy as can be; the guy who wrote it said so as he handed it to me.
Chorus: Ain't we crazy? Ain't we crazy? Oh, this is the way we pass the time away; aint' we crazy?
Music by: McClintock, Harry K., and Sterling Sherwin.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Listen to the German band.
First Line: In the neighborhood I liff ev'ry day at twelff, comes around a certain band and I enchoy myself
Chorus: Listen to the German band the music's grand
Music by: Revel, Harry.
Words by: Gordon, Mack.
P/P/D: New York : Miller Music Co., c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: A little street where old friends meet.
First Line: Homesick, heart sick, nothing seems real; that's how I feel today
Chorus: It's just a little street where old friends meet, I'd love to wander back some day
Music by: Kahn, Gus, and Harry Woods.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Joe Morris Music, c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Living in clover.
First Line: I've done with blue days I somehow knew that fate intended this to be
Chorus: Sun is shining and skies are blue life's just wonderful when you're two
Music by: Posford, George.
Words by: Marvell, Holt.
P/P/D: New York : Keith Prowse & Co. Ltd., c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Marching along together.
First Line: Off we go with bulging packs on broad and manly backs, ev'ryone happy and singing a song
Chorus: Marching along together, singing all along the line, what do we care for weather?
Music by: Steininger, Frank, and Edward Pola.
Words by: Steininger, Frank, and Edward Pola.
P/P/D: London : Peter Maurice Music Co. Ltd., c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: My river home.
First Line: Big town you've got the best of me, big town there is no rest for me
Chorus: Longing for my river home, along the 'sippy shore
Music by: Petkere, Bernice.
Words by: Young, Joe.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin Inc., c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: 'Neath the Silv'ry Moon.
First Line: 'Neath the Silv'ry Moon we met dear a little quarrel and we parted
Chorus: 'Neath the Silv'ry Moon sweetheart, once again back in lover's lane once more
Music by: Friend, Cliff.
Words by: Friend, Cliff.
P/P/D: New York : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp., c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Old Vienna Moon.
First Line: When we met in Vienna in June, when we danced by the light of the moon
Chorus:
Music by: Zadowski, Jan.
Words by: Lebert, Ludwig.
P/P/D: London : Peter Maurice Music Co. Ltd., c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Rackety Rax.
First Line: Come with me, one and all, park your body at the pigskin ball
Chorus: Pick up your marbles, pick up your jacks, it's time to lam and scram, to the prom dance
Music by: Hanley, James F.
Words by: Gilbert, L. Wolfe.
P/P/D: New York : Movietone Music Corp., c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Songs of the bells.
First Line: Ev'ning is bringing the song that I love, sent by the angels from heaven above
Chorus: Song of the bells, sweet melody, tenderly tells a story to me
Music by: Pola, Edward, Jack Hylton, and Franz Steininger.
Words by: Pola, Edward, Jack Hylton, and Franz Steininger.
P/P/D: London : Peter Maurice Music Co. Ltd., c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Strange interlude.
First Line: Interlude, oh so strange, keeps my love burning
Chorus: The world is such a silent place since you've gone, no consolation
Music by: Baker, Phil.
Words by: Bernie, Ben, and Walter Hirsch.
P/P/D: New York : Miller Music Incorporated, c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Who'd believe (you're in love with me).
First Line: Miracles can happen, one happened to me on the lucky day that I met you, dear
Chorus: Who'd believe that you could really love me, who'd believe to take a look at you
Music by: Barris, Harry.
Words by: Davis, Benny.
P/P/D: S.I. : De Sylva, Brown and Henderson Inc., c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: You didn't want me when you had me (so why do you want me now).
First Line: Why do you try to waken memory, why talk about the days that used to be
Chorus: You didn't want me when you had me, so why do you want me now?
Music by: Bennett, Geo. J.
Words by: Russell, Ben, and Bernie Grossman.
P/P/D: New York : Jos. W. Stern & Co., c1932.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Here is my heart (here is my hand).
First Line: It is my fate, I find, to dream of you, but in this state of mind I'm blue
Chorus: Here is my heart, here is my hand, here's all my love at your command
Music by: Ballard, Pat, and Charles Henderson.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : American Music Corp., c1933.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: My first love to last.
First Line: If I've made a botch of life wasn't it rather scotch of life
Chorus: Your my first love a long, long rehearsed love, you're my first love to last
Music by: Whiting, Richard A.
Words by: Marion, George, Jr.
P/P/D: New York : Movietone Music Corp., c1933.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: My heart's desire.
First Line: There's a new idea now dawning in my brain skies above are clear now I haven't lived in vain
Chorus: Ev'ry little song I sing is like a song of spring I'm always singing to my heart's desire
Music by: Whiting, Richard A.
Words by: Marion, George, Jr.
P/P/D: New York : Movietone Music Corp., c1933.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Sweetheart of sweet sixteen.
First Line: Sweetheart, this is May, and a wedding day will be coming soon for you and me
Chorus: You're like a rose, a rose in the bud, my sweetheart of sweet sixteen
Music by: Coots, Fred J.
Words by: Kahn, Gus.
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist Inc., c1933.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Stay as sweet as you are.
First Line: Beloved, I think nothing but the best of you
Chorus: Stay as sweet as you are, don't let a thing ever change you
Music by: Gordon, Mack, and Harry Revel.
Words by: Gordon, Mack, and Harry Revel.
P/P/D: S.l. : Paramount Productions Music Corp., c1934.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: With every breath I take.
First Line: I was gay and free 'till you looked at me so sweetly
Chorus: I think of you with ev'ry breath I take and ev'ry breath becomes a sigh
Music by: Robin, Leo, and Ralph Rainger.
Words by: Robin, Leo, and Ralph Rainger.
P/P/D: New York : Famous Music Corp., c1934.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: When love knocks at your heart.
First Line: You may be worldly you may be wise and 'way beyond your years
Chorus: When love knocks at your heart open up your heart and let love in
Music by: De Rose, Peter.
Words by: Hill, Billy.
P/P/D: New York : Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc., c1935.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Cool Water.
First Line: All day I've faced a barren waste without the taste of water cool water
Chorus: Keep a movin', Dan, don't you listen to him, Dan, he's a devil, not a man
Music by: Nolan, Bob.
Words by: Nolan, Bob.
P/P/D: Hollywood, Calif : American Music Inc., c1936.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: I'm waiting for you in the Rockies.
First Line: In the Rockies today it is June time, oh, it's wonderful beauty I see
Chorus: I'm waiting for you in the Rockies, where the skies are so fair and so blue
Music by: Brix, Al.
Words by: Horan, Jack, and Mary H. Woolsey.
P/P/D: Great Falls, Mont. : Alfred K. Brix, c1936.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Twilight on the trail.
First Line:
Chorus: When it's twilight on the trail and I jog along the world is like a dream, and the ripple of the stream is my song
Music by: Mitchell, Sidney D., and Louis Alter.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Famous Music Corp., c1936.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

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Title: The flea hop.
First Line: All you "shags" and "swing a roos," here's some nifty news for youse
Chorus: The flea hop'll get you, the flea hop'll get you
Music by: Oppenheim, Dave, Al Jacobs, and Jack Palmer.
Words by: Sanford, Bobby.
P/P/D: New York : Stasny Music Corp., c1937.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Harlem Casanova.
First Line: In days of old when knights were bold, Casanova was the big "how do you do?"
Chorus: Who makes the ladies stop and sigh? Who makes them holler "what a guy"
Music by: Klages, Raymond, James Cavanaugh, and Frank Weldon.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Empire Music Publishing Co., c1937.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: How am I to know?
First Line: Each ev'ning I wonder what are your thoughts of me
Chorus: How am I to know that you are in love, how am I to know you love me?
Music by: Trace, Al, and Wendell Arensdorff.
Words by: Whitney, Margaret.
P/P/D: West Allis, Wisc. : Wendell Arensdorff, c1937.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: I love my wife; but, oh, you kid!
First Line: Henry Green had family troubles all his married life
Chorus: Well I love my wife but oh you kid oh you kid oh you kid you've got me clean off my lid
Music by: Armstrong, Harry, and Billy Clark.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Harry Armstrong, c1937.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: In a little Carolina town.
First Line: How I miss ev'ry tender kiss of the one I love so well
Chorus: In a little Carolina town, the one I long to see is waiting there for me
Music by: Lombardo, Carmen, and John Jacob Loeb.
Words by: Lombardo, Carmen, and John Jacob Loeb.
P/P/D: New York : Crawford Music Corp., c1937.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Snowtime Serenade.
First Line: Sleigh bells are ringing, rhythmic'lly swinging; still it may well be June
Chorus: Out in the birght winter night, we're riding through acres of white
Music by: Harper, Marjorie, Don Baker, and Bill Livingston.
Words by: Harper, Marjorie, Don Baker, and Bill Livingston.
P/P/D: New York : Alfred Music Co. Inc., c1937.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Sweet is the word for you.
First Line: I look at you, and from the blue I seem to hear a voice repeating "this is the night"
Chorus: Sweet you in the moonlight, sweet is the word for you
Music by: Robin, Leo, and Ralph Rainger.
Words by: Robin, Leo, and Ralph Rainger.
P/P/D: New York : Famous Music Corp., c1937.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

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1938

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Title: Bewildered.
First Line: The joy you brought to me is just a memory
Chorus: Bewildered lost in a dream of you where is the love I knew, why did we part?
Music by: Powell, Teddy.
Words by: Whitcup, Leonard.
P/P/D: New York : Miller Music Corp., c1938.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: For months and months and months.
First Line: My mother always told me that I had a splendid voice
Chorus: But I don't suppose I'll sing it again for months and months and months
Music by: Norworth, Jack, and Nora Bayes.
Words by: Tabrar, Joseph.
P/P/D: New York : Jerry Vogel Music Co., c1938.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: If it rains-who cares!
First Line: There was a time April showers would fill me with fear
Chorus: If it rains, who cares! It's never cloudy above because I'm in love with you
Music by: Burke, Joe.
Words by: Leslie, Edgar.
P/P/D: New York : Joe Morris Music Co., c1938.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Love is here to stay.
First Line: The more I read the papers the less I comprehend
Chorus: It's very clear our love is here to stay; not for a year but ever and a day
Music by: Gershwin, George.
Words by: Gershwin, Ira.
P/P/D: New York : Gershwin Publishing Corporation, c1938.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Swingin' the nursery rhymes.
First Line: You have to have imagination, if you want to get along, they say
Chorus: Picture Mother Hubbard, strutin' to the cupboard
Music by: Oppenheim, Dave, Jack Palmer, and Al Jacobs.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Stasny Music Corp., c1938.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: That lovin' Traumerei.
First Line: Moses Johnson played piano mighty swell he could play Trovatore and William Tell
Chorus: "Play that Traumerei for me!" "A lovin' feelin' comes a stealin' with that melody"
Music by: Stauffer, Aubrey.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Jerry Vogel Music Co. Inc., c1938.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Until you went away.
First Line: You said good-bye and left me broken hearted I'm lonely just as lonely as can be
Chorus: I never knew how much I'd miss you until you went away
Music by: Morse, Lou, and Walter Shaughnessy.
Words by:
P/P/D: Boston, Mass. : Back Bay Music Co., c1938.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

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1939

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Title: Bless you.
First Line: I never heard the bells of evening without a feeling of regret
Chorus: Bless you for being an angel just when it seemed that heaven was not for me
Music by: Lane, Eddie, and Don Baker.
Words by: Lane, Eddie, and Don Baker.
P/P/D: New York : Words and Music Inc., c1939.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: I'll never smile again.
First Line: You loved me in the past, but our romance didn't last
Chorus: I'll never smile again until I smile at you I'll never laugh again what good would it do?
Music by: Lowe, Ruth.
Words by: Lowe, Ruth.
P/P/D: New York : Sun Music Co. Inc., c1939.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: Make me love you like I never loved before.
First Line: Honey, I'm unhappy, that is why I sigh, longing for the lovelight, from a loving eye
Chorus: Love me, like I want you to love me, love me, like I love you
Music by: Fischer, Fred.
Words by: Bryan, Alfred.
P/P/D: New York : Fred Fisher Music Co., Inc., c1939.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939

Title: The rose I gave to you.
First Line: We strolled beneath the moonlight in nature's garden fair
Chorus: When I see a bouquet of roses, I always dream of you
Music by: Dayfotis, John, and Francis Pauly.
Words by:
P/P/D: New York : Art Music Co., c1939.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1930-1939